Improvement in cider-mills



J. E. SAUGI.

Cider-Mills.

No.135,370. Patentedmmmns.

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Witnesses Inventor.

AM. PHOTMITHDGHAPHICCG. MXMSBoRNEPRocESs) UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

JULES EDOUARD SAUGI, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ClDER-MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,370, dated January28, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ULEs EDOUARD SAUGI,

of Washington, in the District of Columbia,

Nature and Objects of the Intention.

The mill is constructed with a revolving cylinder formed of anumber ofcircular saws arranged spirally, and with washers or annular disksybetween lthem upon a suitable driving arbor or shaft," the teeth of thecylinder pass-` ing` between and cutting shearwise with a cluster ofknives, which are adjustable toward the cylinder. The cylinder is drivenat a high velocity by a belt or by suitable gearing, and its teeth workbetween stationary clearing-teeth at back. The pomace is in part drivenbetween the knives and in part carried down in front of them by theteeth of the cylinders,

Vboth parts being finely divided, and passing into a common receptaclebeneath, for which purpose a throat is provided at front and one at backof the lower end of the knife-plate, as hereinafter described.

General Description.

Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a vertical section, of a machineembodying my improvements. Figs. 3 ande are detached views of my gang ofthroat-knives and of my clearer.

A is a hopper, two of whose opposing sides converge downward, one ofsaid sides, B, being stationary, and the other one, C, being hinged,near its lower edge, to the hopper by meansof screwlthreaded pivots c,which also serve to attach a gang of knives, to be presently described,and said side is adjustable inward or outward by the nut screws D. Journaled athwart the hopper, in the vertical sides thereof, is a shaft,E, armed with a gang of circular saws, F, whose bladesv are separated atequal distances by means of washers G. These saws are preferably sodisposed upon the shaft as to give a spiral arrangement to the teeth.Attached to the inner face of the adjustable hopper side C is a seriesor gang of knives, H, which are parallel to and equidistant from eachother, and which are interposed so as for each one to occupy the spacebetween two consecutive saw-blades in the manner represented. That partof the inner face of the side C immediately behind the knives Hisexcavated so as to form a channel or passage, I, for the descent ofwhatever matters pass through between the knives. Attached -to the innerface of the side B, and extending inward in the horizontal plane of theshaft F, is a comb or clearer, L, consisting of a series of ngers, ofwhich one projects between every two consecutive saws on their rear orascending side. These lingers prevent the descent in rear of the saws ofsmall apples, which would otherwise escape unground into the pomace.`Theyalso operate to scrape from the saws all adhering pomace, and toprevent its return intothe upper part of the hopper. The gang of saws isdriven at a high velocity by the represented geared connection J orother suitable connection with a winch, K, which may be duplicated, K',so as to enable two persons to operate the ma chine. The saws and knivesare preferably so attached, as shown, as to be easily removable forregrinding or substitution. Y

Operation.

The knives having been set to their desired proximity to the gang ofsaws,kthe latter is rotated, and apples being fed into the hopper arecrushed by the rapidlyidescending sawi teeth, and the fragments drivendown and at the same time still further comminuted by the joint actionof the saws and the knives, and escape in the form of pomace, a portionof them in front of and the remainder at the rear of the knives.

It will be seen that the rotary gang F op` erates to agitate and breakup the apples in the hopper, and, by acting shearwise with theinterposed knives, operates to ei'ectually slice the fragments thuspresented and to feed thenl downward, in the manner already indicateClaims.

I claim as new and of my inventionm j 1. The combination of a series ofcircular saws arranged spirally upon the rotating' Crusher and feeder Fand bladed adjustable hopper side H C, substantially as and for the tivecircular saws F separated by Washers G, purpose set forth. the Wholebeing arranged and operating sub- 2. The described combination of hopperA sbantially as and for the purpose set forth. having the inclinedadjustable and channeled JULES EDOUARD SAUGI.

side C c I, armed with knives H, and station- Vitnesses: ary sideB7armed with c1earersL,Whieh knives OGTAVIUS KNIGHT, and clearersintervene between the consecu- WALTER ALLENs

